Chief Justice Roberts on the Declaration of Independence

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to ...
Reason

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...
Inland Valley Daily BulletinOpinion

Why Walter Isaacson says the Declaration of Independence can still unite us

The author of ‘The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,’ says, ‘Maybe reflecting on the Declaration of Independence and the values ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

On Independence Day, we deserve a president who governs by founding principles | Opinion

President Trump's actions in office are seen as violating the Declaration of Independence's core principles. Trump's approach to governing is compared to King George III, prioritizing a "unitary ...
The Atlantic

Whose Independence?

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...